International Film School Cologne
| ifs international film school cologne | |
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| founding | 2000 |
| place | Cologne |
| state |
 North Rhine-Westphalia
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| country |
 Germany
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| Managing directors |
Nadja Radojevic , Rainer Weiland |
| Employee | 74 |
| including professors | 17th |
| Website | www.filmschule.de |
The ifs internationale filmschule köln gGmbH is a training and further education institution for film and media professionals in Cologne . At the beginning of 2000, on the initiative of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, it was taken from the models of the Schreibschule Köln e. V. and the Filmschule NRW e. V. emerged. It has been cooperating with the TH Köln since 2004 via a franchise agreement , which also awards the state - recognized Bachelor 's and Master' s degrees.
Since May 2020 ifs has had a new managing director, Nadja Radojevic. She will succeed Simone Stewens, who will retire at the end of April after 18 years of successful management.
The ifs internationale filmschule köln is a subsidiary of the Filmstiftung NRW. In addition, the ifs is financed by private sponsors and tuition fees.
In the film university ranking of the news magazine Focus (issue 22/2006), the ifs, together with the KHM and the dffb , took second place with 76 out of 100 points after the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy (78 points). Evaluation criteria were (in addition to the reputation of the university) the student support situation, the technical equipment and the number of prizes won.
The school in Cologne is a member of the international film school association CILECT . Gender and diversity are central aspects of the film school's mission statement. The ifs has been a signatory to the Diversity Charter since March 2020.
courses
education
At the ifs there is the bachelor's degree in film with a focus on film directing , creative production , editing in image and sound, VFX and animation, camera, script and, since 2016, production design. A maximum of ten participants are admitted for each of these key areas, who are selected through a two-stage application process. In addition to well-known filmmakers, other industry representatives also attend the selection committee. In contrast to similar film schools, this offer only takes place every two years. The course lasts three years and is designed as a full-time program. In 2016 the tuition fees amounted to 3,500 euros per calendar year.
From 2003 the postgraduate degree in sound design was offered, which took place every two years. In 2009 it gave way to the second bachelor's degree "Editing Image and Sound", in which the advanced training courses in sound design and film editing are integrated . This three-year basic training for image and sound assembly imparts the understanding and craft of storytelling at the level of assembly and sound design.
After many years of cooperation with the camera course at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences under the direction of Adolf Winkelmann , the third bachelor course was introduced at the ifs in the 2010 winter semester with the new "Camera" course.
Since 2015, the individual bachelor's degree programs have been offered as major subjects in the bachelor’s degree in film.
Since the 2013/2014 winter semester, a two-year master’s course with a focus on serial storytelling (script development for series) has been offered, for example with Dominik Graf or Frank Spotnitz . A two-year master’s degree with a focus on digital narratives has been offered since the 2016 winter semester . The new, part-time master’s degree in 3D Animation for Film and Games has been offered since October 2018 . The master’s degree is a part-time cooperation course between the Cologne Game Lab of the TH Köln and the ifs international film school in Cologne. The language of instruction in the master’s programs is English.
In 2019 ifs started a new training program for TV entertainment producers. The practice-oriented and industry-specific qualification offer is intended to counter the acute shortage of skilled workers in the industry with an offer that is specially tailored to the needs of non-fictional entertainment production. Initiated and funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the program was developed at the ifs in close cooperation with the Entertainment Master Class and NRW producers. Further cooperation partners are the Film and Media Association of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Alliance of German Producers for Film and Television eV
further education
For professional filmmakers or film enthusiasts from related fields, the ifs offers a wide range of training opportunities - full-time programs lasting several months, extra-occupational offers or workshops lasting several days.
The training courses are:
- Costume design
- Editing / sound
- play
- VFX and animation
- camera
- Masterclass Non-Fiction
- script
- Workshops in advanced training camps (spring and autumn)
Faculty
Professors
- André Bendocchi-Alves : Editing picture & sound
- Gundolf S. Freyermuth : Associate Professor Comparative Media Studies
- Joachim Friedmann : MA Serial Storytelling
- Dominik Graf : feature film directing (listed as an honorary professorship, but no longer active as a professor since 2011)
- Philip Gröning : Staging fictional narratives in audiovisual media
- Uli Hanisch: production design
- Dr. Ulrike Hanstein: Film studies with a focus on the theory, history and aesthetics of film
- Nanna Heidenreich : Theory - MA Digital Narratives
- Barbara Hennings : Editing picture & sound
- Peter Hermann: Producing creatively
- Mika Kallwass: Script / Dramaturgy
- Uwe Kersken : Masterclass Non-Fiction
- Rolf Mütze : Digital Film Arts / VFX and Animation
- Ruth Olshan : Documentary Narratives in Audiovisual Media
- Jutta Pohlmann: camera - feature film
- Hajo Schomerus : Non-fictional and fictional camera
- David Slama : Cinematography - feature film
- Lena Thiele : Art & Design - MA Digital Narratives
Former professors are the film scholar Oksana Bulgakowa (2004–2008), the documentary filmmaker Dietmar Hochmuth (2004–2005), the feature film director Hans Steinbichler , the screenwriter Peter Henning (2004–2009), the cinematographer Stephanie Hardt (2010–2017), the director Nicole Weegmann (2015-2017), the film scholar Lisa Gotto (2010-2018) and producer Gerd Haag (2011-2018).
Visiting lecturers
The institution regularly integrates well-known German (e.g. Hans-Christian Schmid , Judith Kaufmann , Hermine Huntgeburth , Sherry Hormann ) and international (e.g. Keith Johnstone , Keith Cunningham , MK Lewis , David Bordwell , Peter Przygodda ( † 2011), Roberto Perpignani , Philip Parker , Rachel O'Flanagan, Mary Kate O'Flanagan) industry representatives. These full-day seminars take place on the block and go e.g. T. over several days.
Lecturers such as Klaus Maria Brandauer , Tom Schlesinger , Frank Griebe or Seymour Cassel lead workshops at regular intervals , to which participants who do not study at the ifs can also register. For these too, qualifications often have to be proven and they are subject to a fee.
Events
ifs encounter
Regular evening events with renowned guests take place under the title ifs encounter . These are usually connected with film screenings and subsequent panel and audience discussions. Guests such as Mike Figgis , Dani Levy , Angelina Maccarone , Krzysztof Zanussi , Terry Ackland-Snow , Andreas Dresen , Maximilian Schell , Gerd Ruge , István Szabó and Lalo Schifrin were invited.
Film productions (only final projects)
| Filmography (only final projects) | |||||
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| Movie title | year | Participating filmmakers | |||
| 2004-2010 | |||||
| Women parking lot | 2004 | Christopher Becker | |||
| Transfamily , documentary | 2005 | Sabine Bernardi | |||
| Golden boy | 2005 | Stephan Schiffers and Janna Velber | |||
| Midsummer | 2005 | Christopher Becker and Ewa Borowski | |||
| Coma | 2005 | Johannes F. Sievert and Christoph Herkenrath | |||
| Cupid Fati | 2005 | Dennis Todorović and Melanie Andernach | |||
| Poldi's angel | 2006 | Ewa Borowski , producer, Christoph Mathieu , screenplay and Tina von Traben , director | |||
| border | 2008 | Christine Wernke , Christiane Hütter and Stefan Fendrich | |||
| The ground under your feet | 2007 | Katharina Tilmmanns, Martin Schwitzner and Mathias Krämer | |||
| Beento | 2007 | Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye, Florian Wimmer and Florian Müßener | |||
| A case for KBBG | 2007 | Daniel Rakete Siegel , Christoph Mathieu, Nima Kianzad and Katrin Hohendahl | |||
| Robin | 2007 | Hanno Olderdissen , Clemente Fernandez-Gil and Katrin Hohendahl | |||
| The suspicion | 2007 | Felix Hassenfratz and Mathias Casanova | |||
| absolution | 2007 | Markus Sehr and Moritz Grenzebach | |||
| Gisberta | 2009 | Lisa Violetta Gaß and Roshanak Khodabakhsh | |||
| Warrior stick | 2009 | Joseph Lippok, Nathan Raimann and Tobias Leveringhaus | |||
| Soltau (film) | 2009 | Peter Hümmeler | |||
| Zeche ist nich - Seven Views of the Ruhr Area 2010 | 2010 | Coproduction with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne | |||
| 2012 | |||||
| True beginning | 2012 | Miguel Müller and Nicole Schmeier | |||
| Silent world | 2012 | Thorsten Kleinschmidt and Christopher Tworuschka | |||
| Niklas in love | 2012 | Marian-Reinhart Grönwoldt | |||
| Black Heart | 2012 | Tamer Jandali and Daniel Stark | |||
| Well Sdorovye! Babushka! | 2012 | Viktoria Gurtovaj and Nicole Zurek | |||
| Kiss me deeper | 2012 | Eleni Katsoni and Benno Aselmeyer | |||
| Who I am happy | 2012 | Maria Pavlidou, Ingrid Kaltenegger and Fiona Brands | |||
| Having cancer | 2012 | Anne Maschlanka, Alexander Daus, Elisabeth Feltes and Lucas Seeberger | |||
| We are me | 2012 | Alexandra Brodski | |||
| Ararat | 2012 | Engin Kundag, Jonas Thoma | |||
| The coffin maker's swing | 2012 | Elmár Imánov , Eva Blondiau, Driss Azhari and Bastian Bothe | |||
| Look elsewhere | 2012 | Charlotte Ann-Marie Rolfes and Anna Knolle | |||
| Playtime | 2012 | Coproduction with UCLA | |||
| 2014 | |||||
| Asami | 2014 | Daniel Farkas and Yana Höhnerbach | |||
| Cheeky Overdose | 2014 | Saskia Schwarz, Philipp Stendebach | |||
| Return to my mother's garden | 2014 | Felipe Calvo-Montero, ZsaZsa von Ammon, Nora Housseyn and Yana Höhnerbach | |||
| A fairy tale from an impossible place in the universe | 2014 | Markus Wulf, Su Jin Song, Janosch Götze and Holger Buff | |||
| Rebecca | 2014 | Anna Kohlschütter, Maureen Adlawan, Bine Jankowski and Gesa Hille | |||
| nirvana | 2014 | Simon Dolensky, Fabian Klein and Leonard Lokai | |||
| Lucky child | 2014 | Maria Titova, ZsaZsa from Ammon and Marcel Kalwa | |||
| Brothers | 2014 | Jarek Duda, Daniel Schüller, Felix Tonnat and Esther Geisen | |||
| alter ego | 2014 | Levin Hübner, Fabian Wallenfels, Martina Di Lorenzo and Jascha Viehl | |||
| The rifle | 2014 | Florian Ross, Finn Stroeks and Annik Kreuels, Florian Pley and Felix Meyer | |||
| 2016 | |||||
| Beat Beat Heart | 2016 | Luise Brinkmann , Olivia Charamsa, Mathis Hanspach and Maren Unterburger | |||
| The Lonely Court (script only) | 2016 | Christian Zipfel, Daniela Pennekamp, Nino Peschel and Nathalie Bender | |||
| The panther | 2016 | Lydia-Maria Emrich, Darius Cernota, Felix Engstfeld, Anne Schultze-Lindemann and Tom Küspert | |||
| Grumbles | 2016 | Sonja Keßler, Jenny Lorenz, Christophe Poulles, Sandra Schröder and Leo Hoffmann | |||
| construction | 2016 | Helena Lucas, Robert Schäfer, Björn Weber, Marco Heibach and Dimitri Makrinic | |||
| Lost in Hope | 2016 | Aline Hochscheid, Dennis Colquhoun, Kyrill Ahlvers and Zoltan Madjarevic | |||
| Toni and the strong men | 2016 | Maximilian Lippemeier, Nils Lehmbruch, Levin Hübner, Martina Di Lorenzo, Holger Buff and Jakob Jendryka | |||
| transit | 2016 | Oliver Meinborn, Nikolaas Meinshausen, Thorsten Gruna, Jonas Heicks, Leo Hoffmann, Marco Heibach, Peter Anlauf | |||
| Paul | 2016 | Peter approach | |||
| Update required | 2016 | Jo Müller | |||
| baba nam kebap (script only) | 2016 | Julia Angerer-Zimth | |||
| Watchful | 2016 | Felix Engstfeld | |||
| Puppeteer, good night. (script only) | 2016 | Lisa Sophie Fechner | |||
| The Empty Room (script only) | 2016 | Jonas Heicks | |||
| Symptom human (script only) | 2016 | Maximilian Lippemeier | |||
| Driven Hunt (Script Only) | 2016 | Sandra Schröder | |||
| The City of Lion (script only) | 2016 | Sergei Waldrat | |||
| North month | 2016 | Sven Wartig | |||
| 2018 | |||||
| Alyosha and the Fire (script only) | 2018 | Julia character | |||
| Bulldog | 2018 | André Szardenings, Katja Tauber, Antonia Marleen Klein | |||
| Circus Mortalis (script only) | 2018 | Nina Meyer | |||
| The Scream | 2018 | Bünyamin Musullu, Carly Hoffmann, Jannis Danikas, Friederike Dörffler | |||
| The color | 2018 | Cem Karayakas, Jelena Annabelle Lützel, Manuel Zilleken, Christian Godau, Maria Hartig, Nils Nißing, Jan Zinn | |||
| A box of nothing (script only) | 2018 | Tim Knaff | |||
| It was nice | 2018 | Naomi Kantor, Marius Kimmel, Mathis Hanspach, Antonia-Marleen Klein, Bohdan Adam Wozniak | |||
| Flocke & Proschinski | 2018 | Lutz Rödig, Ruben Schlembach, Christopher Albrodt, Sabine Sina Stephan, Jeannine Compère, Jessica Kaczmarek, Esra Tamkoc | |||
| horst | 2018 | Samuel Pleitner, Lisa Sophie Fechner, Michael Lucas Hein, Christian Godau, Jessica Kaczmarek, Holger Buff, Sarah Rehberg | |||
| It's warmer in the dark | 2018 | Daniel Kunkel, Jelena Annabelle Lützel, David Kade, Leo Decristoforo, Alexandra Vahlkamp, Mikko Beste | |||
| Klaus driving | 2018 | Raphaela Selge, Manuel Zilleken, Jakob Gehrmann, Maximilian Rodegra, Mikko Beste | |||
| LABEL ME | 2018 | Kai Kreuser, Sonja Keßler, Jenny Lorenz-Kreindl, Malte Hafner, Tabea Hannapel | |||
| LOSA - Lack of Sexual Attraction (script only) | 2018 | Phil Leasure | |||
| Mono No Aware | 2018 | Till Kleinau, Katja Tauber, Jakob Erdelen, Maximilian Rodegra | |||
| Mononoke (script only) | 2018 | Jakob Erdelen | |||
| Rocket Roaches | 2018 | Mick Mahler, Cedric Engels, Sabine Stephan, Jeannine Compère, Friedrike Dörffler, Franziska Hoh | |||
| Red, red, red | 2018 | Jade Li, Corinne Le Hong, Maximilian Bohl, Thorsten Schönrade, Vlad Litvak, Mikko Beste, Markus Schütz | |||
| Checkmate | 2018 | Christoph Willerscheidt, Michael Lucas Hein, Leo Decristoforo, Friederike Dörffler, Jessica Kaczmarek | |||
| Special (script only) | 2018 | Jelena Annabelle Lützel | |||
| Stone Faces | 2018 | Tim Henning, Nina Meyer, Tabea Hannappel | |||
| Ugly Easy (script only) | 2018 | Zoe Ristow | |||
| Birds over Warsaw (script only) | 2018 | Ruben Schlembach | |||
| War scene | 2018 | Mikko best | |||
Prices
Important award for ifs films (chronological, from 2007) The graduation film “Amor Fati” will be shown at the Int. Short film festival Dresden honored with the audience award. The film received an honorable mention at the Locarno Film Festival 2006. In 2007 the film “Wut” won the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Golden Camera. The film was also shown at the 2007 International Festival of Audiovisual Programs, where "Wut" was awarded the FIPA D'Argent Special Price. The film was awarded the Gold World Medal Prize at the New York Festival. The graduation film "Robin" won the First Steps Award 2008 and in 2008 won the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award in the category "Best Director". In addition, he was honored in 2008 with the Babelsberg Media Prize - “Best Graduate Feature Film” and at the Dresden Film Festival with the Golden Rider in the “Short Feature Film” category. The graduation film “Der Verdacht” received the German Short Film Award in gold as “Best Feature Film” in 2008. It also received the Panther Award for “Best Production of a German Film” at the Munich International Film Schools Festival. In 2008 "Der Verdacht" won the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award for "Best Screenplay". In addition, the graduation film wins the BMW Short Film Prize, 2nd jury prize at the Landshut Short Film Festival 2008. The film "10 Kinds of Rain" wins the Phoenix Award 2009. The graduation film "Heimspiel" wins the 2010 German Film Critics' Short Film Prize at the Dresden Film Festival. In addition, the film won the "Grand Prix" for the best film at the Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival 2010. The film “Anduni - Fremde Heimat”, for which ifs graduate Karin Kaci wrote the screenplay, won the 2010 Max Ophüls Award. The film “The moon is a beautiful place” will be shown at the Int. Festival of the Munich Film Schools awarded the “Best Documentary - Arri Prize 2011”. The script for the graduation film “Gisberta” will be presented at the Int. Awarded Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv. In 2010, the film also won first place as “Best German Film” at the interfilm Berlin short film festival. The graduation film “The Coffin Maker's Swing” wins the 2012 Student Academy Award in the “Best Foreign Film” category (bronze). In addition, the film will be the winner of the International Student Festival Sehsuchten 2012 in the category “Best film under 30 minutes” and at the GULDF FILM FESTIVAL as “Best Film” in the category “Int. Short Films “2013. At the Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival he wins directly in two categories:“ Competition Main Award…. In 2019 the film took 2nd place in the CILECT PRIZE in the “Fiction” category. The graduation film "Alter Egon" won the 2013 audience award at the Max Ophüls Prize. He received 1st place at the DEKALOG Film Prize 2014. The camerawoman Martina DiLorenzo was honored for her work in 2015 with the German camera prize “Young Talent Prize”. The graduation film "A fairy tale from an impossible place in the universe" is nominated for the 2014 German Short Film Award. The graduation film “Nirwana” won the 2014 Cologne Design Prize jury award. The graduation film "The Lonely Court" wins 2nd place at the award ceremony of the Cologne Design Prize 2016. The 30-minute graduation film The lonely farm (2016) occupied in the international festival La Cabina for Medium Movies in Valencia in the same year the winning places in the categories "Best Film" and "Best Music". At the Cologne Design Prize / Toby E. Rodes Award 2018, the graduation film “Rocket Roaches” was awarded 2nd prize. The documentary "DNA Cooking", which was created as part of the non-fiction masterclass, won 1st prize in the treatment competition for documentaries / documentaries organized by Bavarian Radio in 2018. The graduation film "Label Me" is the winner of the Max Ophüls Prize 2019 in the category "Best medium-length film".
Well-known graduates
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Web links
- Official website
- International Film School Cologne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- International Film School Cologne at Crew United
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter C. Slansky: Film schools in Germany. History - typology - architecture . edition text + kritik, Munich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86916-116-7
- ↑ Franchising for young filmmakers , geschichte.nrw.de
- ↑ Partner of the ifs ( memento of October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the ifs website, accessed on October 23, 2012
- ↑ Focus Ranking of the Film Schools , Edition 22/2006
- ↑ ifs internationale filmschule ( memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 22, 2013
- ↑ Announcement on the ifs homepage , accessed in August 2018.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '32.6 " N , 6 ° 56' 16.8" E